Photographer Jung Lee’s installations light up our hearts
At & Of Other Things we’ve got a lot of love for neon signs. There’s a beauty in the blinking lights that cover cities, not diminished by the fact they’re often peddling fast food, sex or booze. We’re hankering after having some neon ampersand signs of our own.
The series Aporia by South Korean photographer and artist Jung Lee is a stunning use of neon. Inspired by Roland Barthes essay, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments the artist placed neon lights spelling out sentimental messages away from their usual context, instead putting them against snowy and desert backdrops. The resultant photographs are eerily beautiful, the bleak landscapes lending the phrases an impact they didn’t have on their own.
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Lee is currently based in Brooklyn, New York and produces interestingly layered paintings and sculptures, often triggered by things she finds on the street. She also makes conceptual photographs, as well as photographing people and architecture.
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By Rose Arnold
